Black And White Photo Maker

Before ending up on social networks or any other online location, most pictures go through more or less complicated editing processes, either to enhance them, remove or fix errors. However, one popular trend is to simply add an effect, which is exactly why Black And White Photo Maker was made to do.

On the visual side of things, the interface is rather dull and seems to be pulled from the last decade, with classic window elements, buttons and interactive panels, and little to no styles to represent it. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it makes accommodation incredibly easy.

Sooner or later you need to add photos to be processed, or better yet, a single photo because batch conversion is not supported. Either using the built-in open dialog or dragging them over the main window, you can load formats like JPG, BMP, GIF, RAS, JPC, ICO, TIF, PNG, PCX, and TGA.

Both the original and modified pictures are displayed in separate panels. Sadly, the main window can’t be resized, and you need to pay close attention because of the disturbingly small preview areas. On the other hand, the only effect that can be added is black and white, which doesn’t take a lot of imagination power.

Besides applying the only effect it has, the application gives you the possibility to crop pictures by dragging a box around the target area. Output options let you choose from different size percentages, resolutions, or option to manually set width and height. The newly created file is under one of the same available formats up for import.

Bottom line is that Black And White Photo Maker is a really straightforward approach on photo editing, with a rather poor set of features put at your disposal. Even if this is overlooked, it can’t simply be used as a file converter, given the rich file support, because there’s no option to turn off the filter.